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Charlie Crerar

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I am an Assistant Research Professor in the philosophy department of the University of Connecticut. I received my PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2018, following an MPhil in International Development from the University of Cambridge in 2014 (Distinction). My BA in Philosophy was from the University of Sheffield, 2013 (First Class, Nidditch Prize).

The main focus of my research is in epistemology. I am interested in how our epistemic practices and capacities affect our lives as social, political, and moral agents, and vice versa. In this connection, I have written on topics including the epistemology of taboo, the nature of intellectual vice, epistemic paternalism, snobbery, and both intellectual and moral virtue. I am also interested in related areas of both ethics and feminist philosophy. 

Much of my teaching is in epistemology and ethics. In 2020-21 I am teaching an upper level course on self-knowledge and ignorance, and an intro course on normative and applied ethics.

Email: charlie[dot]crerar[at]uconn[dot]edu

Selected Publications


  • 'Must We Love Epistemic Goods?'. Philosophical Quarterly. Forthcoming.
  • ‘Intellectual Snobs’. Heather Battaly, Quassim Cassam, and Ian James Kidd (eds.) Vice Epistemology (Routledge). Forthcoming.
  • ‘Epistemic Paternalism and Intellectual Charity’. Guy Axtell and Amiel Bernal (eds.) Epistemic Paternalism (Palgrave-MacMillan). 2020.
  • Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements: Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice (Cambridge University Press). Co-edited with Simon Barker and Trystan Goetze. 2018.
  • ‘Motivational Approaches to Intellectual Vice’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 2018.
  • ‘Taboo, Hermeneutical Injustice, and Expressively Free Environments’. Episteme . 2016.

​Works in Progress

  • A paper about hermeneutical injustice and extremist groups.
  • A paper about the relation between virtues and their corresponding character traits.
  • A paper about the difference between other-regarding and self-regarding intellectual virtues.

Please email me for drafts of any of the above work.
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